Head of Partnerships

Job Description

Title: Head of Partnerships

Company Name: Save the Children

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: --

Experience:

• At least 10 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

Master’s Degree preferably in Social Science, Business Administration or related field.

• At least 10 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• At least 10 years working experience in development field, with at least 5 years’ experience in partnership or partnership-based programming.

• Sound knowledge of child and human-rights frameworks, including rights-based programming and in-depth understanding on core elements of approaches to working in partnerships.

• Excellent strategic vision, with strong ability to be innovative, creative, and proactive to see different scenarios and contingencies required to improve partners’ capacity to deliver desired results and changes for children.

• Excellent skills on training facilitation, negotiation, presentation, networking, and communication

• Experience with supporting organizational capacity strengthening processes.

• Extensive knowledge of and credibility with local and national NGO partners.

• Commitment to and understanding of gender equality, inclusion, child rights, the aims and principles of SC, and humanitarian standards such as the IASC Guidelines;

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

• Computer proficiency in MS Office

• Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills.

• Ability to multi-task, set priorities, and maintain positive attitude

• Advance knowledge and skill on organizational development -OD process.

Contract Type: Regular

Save the Children invites applications for the above-mentioned position. Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. Minimum requirements will be flexible for the potential female candidates.

Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. Minimum requirements will be flexible for the potential female candidates.

The Opportunity

In line with the SCI’s theory of change, the grand bargain principles of localization and organization’s readiness towards the membership ambition, the purpose of the Head of Partnerships is to ensure the overall quality of partnership management in the country office in both development and humanitarian contexts. This position will also support the PDQ Director in coordinating strategy planning, tracking and reporting. The roles include but are not limited to:

• Leading and providing strategic, operational, and technical leadership in the development, implementation and follow-up save the children partnership workflow including central process/ system alignment across Bangladesh Country Office for effective partnership management, update partnership standard, procedures, and tools within the Quality Framework; engage other function leads to ensure seamless coordination across functions.

• Playing a key role in Bangladesh Country Office to drive, harmonize, implement, and track localization agenda aligning with changing the international aid system and making the organization better fit for the purpose and remaining a partner of choice for donors and national/local actors, including governments.

• Working closely with the Global Partnership Working Group to ensure mainstreaming of the workflow across the entire organization; effective coordination of learning and capacity building support; capacity building of the partner organizations, coherence and alignment between the operational and strategic dimensions of the organization’s partnership work.

• Requiring regular engagement with the Program Ops, NBD, and PDQ teams and senior colleagues across Save the Children to drive forward our CSP ambition, underline strategies, operational plans and cross-organizational initiatives.

• Gather and analyze best practices on partnerships, monitor progress against the CSP (Country Strategic Plan) Milestones through the Global Results Framework including reporting on partnership results.